On the TV side, FX swept the top categories with Atlanta — from writers Donald Glover, Stephen Glover, Stefani Robinson and Paul Simms — winning for Comedy Series and New Series, The Americans for Drama Series and The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story for Long Form Adapted. See the full list of winners below, along with video of Jenkins’ and Heisserers’ speechs and LA host Patton Oswalt’s monologue.

HBO’s Confirmation picked up the Long Form Original prize, and NBC won three awards including Episode Drama for freshman breakout This Is Us and Comedy/Variety (Sketch) for the rejuvenated Saturday Night Live.

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There was a twist on the film side this year: Moonlight and Loving were in the Original category per the WGA but were in the Adapted race for the Oscars. Moonlight got an Oscar nom, but Loving did not.

Winning in either top film category is a good omen for the nominated writers. Before tonight, seven of the past 10 WGA winners for original screenplay have gone on to win the Oscar, including Spotlight last year. The chances are even better in the adapted category, where nine of the past 10 WGA winners also scooped the Academy Award, including The Big Short in 2016.

Command and Control won the documentary feature prize.

Also on the TV side, HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver won for Comedy/Variety (Talk), and Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt picked up the Episode Comedy trophy.

The awards were handed out during bicoastal dual ceremonies hosted by Patton Oswalt at the Beverly Hilton and Lewis Black at the Edison Ballroom in Manhattan. “Welcome to the last ever WGA Awards,” Oswalt said at the start. “Every award comes with some antibiotics and nine shotgun shells. We celebrate the end of the written word this evening. We also say goodbye to the apostrophe in the word ‘you’re.’” He added: “It doesn’t matter who wins tonight, you are all haters and losers. Remember that, please.”

LONG FORM ADAPTEDAmerican Crime Story:The People vs. O.J. SimpsonWritten by Scott Alexander, Joe Robert Cole, D.V. DeVincentis, Maya Forbes, Larry Karaszewski, Wally Wolodarsky, Based on the book The Run of His Life by Jeffrey Toobin; FX

ANIMATION“Stop the Presses” (BoJack Horseman)
Written by Joe Lawson; Netflix

DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
Command and Control
Telescript by Robert Kenner and Eric Schlosser, Story by Brian Pearle and Kim Roberts; Based on the book Command and Control by Eric Schlosser;

“Welcome to the last ever WGA Awards. Every award comes with some antibiotics and nine shotgun shells. We celebrate the end of the written word this evening. We also say goodbye to the apostrophe in the word ‘you’re’.”

Oswalt: “People here tonight are angry about two things. That Deadpool is nominated and Trump is President. Donald Trump, I want to be very careful about making jokes about – one, for fear of getting kicked to death tonight by James Woods,” he joked.

Oswalt: “See, there’s some peace here. I’m reaching out. And I feel bad for Trump. Here’s what happened. They had the correspondents dinner, Obama went up and made fun of Obama, and Trump said, I’m taking his job. Now he’s sitting there saying, this job sucks! My life before this was amazing! Donald Trump taking Obama’s job would be like if the head of linguistics at Rutgers insulted David Lee Roth, and he said, I’m the head of linguistics at Rutgers. Bring on the hookers and cocaine!”

Curtis: “These are very complex times. I wanted to say to everyone in this room, thank you for the extraordinary thing you to do our lives. Films and tv and radio are so important to the texture of our lives. My girlfriend and I binged The Crown and she said it was the happiest we’ve been in bed in a decade. It’s a wonderful thing that TV does in making us happier, and making us learn and empathize with things.”

Curtis: “I just want to say something to you, which is that my experience is that the people who are working to campaign, and the people who are working to save and change peoples’ lives could really do with your help. I’m sure I’m preaching to the converted. Your ideas will be excellent and will make changes to peoples’ lives, and save precious lives. What’s been so extraordinary about my experience is the miracle that happens when you open the door to peoples’ good side. It’s like a super power.”

Oswalt: “I agree with you. I gotta say, the shoe you grabbed James [Woods], i sold it online to a subreddit group. They are worshipping it. I raised so much money right now for a transgender terrorist group. I’m so glad that’s where the money went.”

Fake Trump: “Billy Bush is reduced to doing shows no one else will do, which is why I saw him here. What a dig, right? What a dig. The Writers Guild is bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, and they’re bringing awful spec scripts of 2 Broke Girls.”

Fake Trump: “What I want to say is I’m a straight menace, but the people who surround me are far more dangerous than I could ever be. Don’t lose sight of those in the shadows. God bless Russia, and all hail the Third Reich!”

(Jeremy Gerard) Here’s Lewis Black again: “I’d be remiss if I didn’t do this, but I worked for 20 years on The Daily Show. I want to take a moment to thank all of the folks who worked on Back In Black.”

“We want to give a big shoutout to the fine folks at Jeopardy. Jeopardy is a national treasure. They employ 9 writers 52 weeks out of the year, and because they’re guild, we’re guild.” — Ann Slichter, Hollywood Game Night

Another big win for ‘Atlanta’, which has emerged as the breakout comedy of 2016 and won a Golden Globe for best comedy series. Too bad fans have to wait awhile for a second season because of creator/star Donald Glover’s role in the Han Solo ‘Star Wars’ movie.

Washington: “I didnt want to make a propaganda film. I grew up in a household where my father faced a lifetime of prejudice. I thought, how in the world could I be part of a film that was a compassionate exploration but also had a solid point of view? Who could make that happen? Enter Susannah Grant,” the actress says, regarding HBO film Confirmation

Washington: “The true hero of the film is something Susannah created – these ringing telephones. Those phone calls were American citizens whose voices required themselves to be heard. Every person who works in Washington works for us.”

Grant: “I’m honored to be getting this, but what makes me prouder is to be part of an organization that makes a commitment to the defense of civil liberties. Sometimes, it’s very, very important, and now is one of those times.”

Grant: “It’s very important that we look at ourselves carefully. These hearings [from Confirmation] wouldn’t have happened at all if it weren’t for two essential institutions – one is the free press. The other essential ingredient is the American public. They stood up, they did their jobs. We should never undervalue the power of that and use it whenever we need to—like now.”

Nanjiani: “I will say the most preposterous idea is that anyone would want to arrive on earth right now,” the actor joked with reference to Arrival. “We forgot to clean up and put away the racism. Nazis are back. On the up side, it’s the first time in my life i can fight Nazis without an Xbox.”

“I’ve spent most of my life laughing, with writers, sitting around a table, always adding a split second to my life, I’m sure. I am so aware that this moment, it has taken me 94 years, a number of weeks, hours, days to get to this split second. Every split second of my life, to get to this, and it’s taken every single one of you every moment you’ve ever lived to get here to hear me say that. Isn’t this a moment we have to hug? It’s just the fact of our lives.” – Lear

Rodman: “Writers cannot write if they’re incapable of empathy, if they’re incapable of imagining what another thinks, feels and sees. This is a room full of extraordinary writers whose imagination and power is beyond compare. Let us remind ourselves of the crucial role we play in shaping the imagination and offering refuge. What we can do is assert again and again that you are not alone. What we do matters. Let’s acknowledge it. Thank you.”

“Last year I did this show because my publicist said it would be good exposure. I got two things out of that: jack, and shit. Really, Vince Gilligan? Jill Soloway? I’ve known you for 30 years. Not a phone call. Why am I back here again? Why do I do anything a second time? Spite and boredom.” — David Koechner

(Jeremy Gerard) David Simon comes on to introduce John Waters: “He is the great modern master of self-effacement and self-parody. … The late 1970s was so long ago that we forget where we were on the continuum of (free expression) for fighting the Maryland state censor.”

Expected sweep for ‘Atlanta,’ which is cementing its status as the hottest comedy series at the moment and a big challenger to two-time defending comedy series Emmy winner ‘Veep’ at the Emmys. This is the first comedy winner in the new series category since HBO’s ‘Girls’ in 2012.

Gould: “Every career reaches a point where they don’t care so much that you’re a wonderful, witty, whimsical writer. Every one of us has to look in the mirror and start asking existential questions. Dan started asking, how can I help?”

This is the first time since the animation award was launched in 2002 that it has not gone to a series that airs on Fox or originated on Fox, ending a 14-year streak. ‘The Simpsons’ has won a staggering 11 times, ‘Futurama’ twice and ‘Bob’s Burgers’ once last year.

“I gotta tell you, it feels odd to get an award for doing something that I loved. I didn’t do guild service to get a statuette. I did it to stay useful as I got older. I got to do some of the most satisfying work of my life. To have an award added to that is kind of overwhelming. I want to add something – this award is for service to our union, and unions, look around. We’re in jeopardy nowadays. However it shakes out, we can all be sure it will be an anti-labor Department of Labor. This union is on notice. We’re going to have to battle just to stay alive. Every union’s strength is its membership. Our guild needs us. Opportunities are going to present themselves.” — Dan Wilcox

(Jeremy Gerard) More from Waters: “I was afraid of the Writers Guild of America — what other union can demand you fly first class? A few new demands; Lt’s stop these movie stars from ad-libbing. Say the lies as written! Say the LINES as written!”

(Jeremy Gerard) More from Waters: “I was afraid of the Writers Guild of America — what other union can demand you fly first class? A few new demands; Let’s stop these movie stars from ad-libbing. Say the lies as written! Say the LINES as written!”

(Jeremy Gerard) Waters ends with, “I’d like to close with a line I wrote for Patty Hearst: ‘Make a list of all the people you fucked and apologize to their parents.’ See? I got an award for writing that line.”

“We thought these weapons were going to make us safer, but we realized they also make us much more dangerous. Today with Donald Trump as President, the great irony is he wouldn’t even be allowed in a silo.” — Command and Control writer

This is the first WGA Award for ‘The Americans’, a long-time critics favorite that finally is getting major awards recognition. Also, first win in the top drama category for FX. Save for ‘Lost’s triumph in 2005, the year the category was launched, every best drama series award in the past 10 years had gone to HBO and AMC.

This is the first WGA Award for ‘The Americans’, a long-time critics favorite that finally is getting major awards recognition. Also, first win in the top drama category for FX. Save for ‘Lost’s triumph in 2005, the year the category was established, every best drama series award in the past 10 years had gone to HBO and AMC.

This is John Oliver’s third consecutive WGA Award after taking home the award for its freshman season. Last year, it was Oliver’s HBO colleague, Bill Maher, who topped the category, proving the weekly format more appealing to WGA voters.

A red-hot season of ‘Saturday Night Live,’ boosted by the presidential election and the Donald Trump presidency, is also getting awards recognition with the veteran show’s fourth WGA Award in the category and first since 2010.